Down Club Hurling & Football

[Hedgehunter]

Shamrocks v Drumgath not postponed til 7.30.

[knockitdown]

Shamrocks v Drumgath not postponed til 7.30.

Off

[FML]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

[wobbller]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

How'd your boy go?

[Line Ball]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

Self praise and all that  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[FML]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

How'd your boy go?

Played a blinder

[SamFever]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

Who manages with this squad?

[Samforever]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

Who manages with this squad?

Thinks it's The Messiah. The mouth from the south( of the county)

[rosskarr]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

Who manages with this squad?

Thinks it's The Messiah. The mouth from the south( of the county)

That reply shows the old East Down chip on the shoulder attitude.Does it really matter where people
are from?

[cut the crap]

Your right Ross , doesn't matter where the manager comes from as long as the squad is a fair representation of the best talent in Down, that I doubt as  i know there are players who would make this squad from east down and have been overlooked, which doesn't make sense.
Secondly , as long as he is the best coach around, I'm told his coaching skills are not in question but his antics along the sideline are, I think if he is to be a future manager for Down his management team would need to contain a couple of seasoned football campaigners who could rein him in.

[Smurfy123]

Will all games go ahead tonight??
A lot of rain about this morning

[OgraAnDun]

Your right Ross , doesn't matter where the manager comes from as long as the squad is a fair representation of the best talent in Down, that I doubt as  i know there are players who would make this squad from east down and have been overlooked, which doesn't make sense.
Secondly , as long as he is the best coach around, I'm told his coaching skills are not in question but his antics along the sideline are, I think if he is to be a future manager for Down his management team would need to contain a couple of seasoned football campaigners who could rein him in.

And last year's team with a South Down manager had South Down players that were overlooked that should have been starting or on the panel. Just because players from a certain part of the county are overlooked does not mean that there is a bias.

[lfdown2]

Annaclone v Liatroim postponed

[Line Ball]

Well done Down U17s. Good gutsy performance and a win over Armagh today.
Entertaining game with quite a few outstanding performances.
Have showed steady progress through the Ulster League.
Maybe there is a future for Down football after all.

Self praise and all that  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Your right Ross , doesn't matter where the manager comes from as long as the squad is a fair representation of the best talent in Down, that I doubt as  i know there are players who would make this squad from east down and have been overlooked, which doesn't make sense.
Secondly , as long as he is the best coach around, I'm told his coaching skills are not in question but his antics along the sideline are, I think if he is to be a future manager for Down his management team would need to contain a couple of seasoned football campaigners who could rein him in.

There is an East Down man with the U.17 squad 

[thewobbler]

Quick lesson for some:

How managers pick representative squads: they look for players who lead the way in terms of ability, athleticism, attitude and aptitude. They will build their team around the players who score highly in all four areas, and when they don't have enough of those, will fill the squad out, and build specialist roles, for those who excel in three areas, and with players who excel in two areas but show signs of potential to be coached for improvement in the others.

How managers don't pick representative squads:  1. by referencing the importance of the regional breakdown of the 1991 senior team in selection meetings. 2. by ignoring the advice of trusted football men from across the county, and most of all, 3.  by drawing a line just south of Kilcoo and using it as the new first parameter in every squad decision.



If a player is both good enough and willing, he will be found.